1 Maccabees 5:4
“Also he remembred the iniurie of the children of Bean, who had bene a snare and an offence vnto the people, in that they lay in waite for them in the wayes.”
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1 Maccabees 5:4 Context
2Wherfore they thought to destroy the generation of Iacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people. 3Then Iudas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabattine, because they besieged Israel: and hee gaue them a great ouerthrow, and abated their courage, and tooke their spoiles. 4Also he remembred the iniurie of the children of Bean, who had bene a snare and an offence vnto the people, in that they lay in waite for them in the wayes. 5Hee shut them vp therefore in the towres, and incamped against them, and destroyed them vtterly, and burnt the towers of that place with fire, and all that were therein. 6Afterward he passed ouer to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their captaine.
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Also he remembered the injury of the children of Bean, who had been a snare and an offence unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them in the ways.
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